An Email with the Subject "A LEGITIMATE BUSINESS OFFER" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:29:31 -0800 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as "OSCAR STEPHEN" <oscar_stephen@email.si>.
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Dear Sir I use this medium to inform you about the death of Late Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido Who was also involved in the (ADC) Flight ADK 053 air crash that occurred on the Sunday, October 29, 2006, although not all the passengers involved died, there were 9 survivals. You can access the full story on this website: http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2006/nov/06/editorial-06-11-2006-001.htm I am contacting you because the new government that took over office on the 29th of May 2007 has decided to release the deceased fund. The deceased deposited the sum of ELEVEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS (US$11,000,000) with our bank UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC. I was his account manager and I have been managing his account since the year 1995 when he opened an account with our bank. The deceased Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido put me in charge of all real estate and other of his belonging because of the love he had on me. He took me like his son and told me that because of how I was to him that I should take charge of all his properties here in Lagos. Now that he is dead, I will not allow the present government to take position of his belongings that is my position, that is why I need you to assist me get this money transferred into your account. With the help of the bank's accredited attorney, we can get all the required legal documents the will enhance hitch free transfer of the fund into your bank account. It does not really matter if you know him, what is needed is for you to provide a foreign business account where this money can be transferred to and your full co-operation both financially and otherwise. As soon as this transaction is finalized we will have to share the money equally 50% for me and 50% for you. Please respond as quick as possible with this personal email address (businessdeal@email.si) to enable me proceed for the legal documents covering these assets information below will help me to prepare the text of application that will be submitted for this claim. FULL NAME...................................................... CONTACT ADDRESS................................................ OCCUPATION..................................................... TELEPHONE & AGE................................................ Please treat this matter with urgency because the present government has given instruction for immediate release of funds. Thank you. Best Regards Mr. Oscar Stephen